Example sentences of "[pron] when [pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Analysing the moral status of a whole society calls for clear thinking and a certain coolness of mind , elements conspicuously absent from most of the pronouncements of public figures in recent weeks , aptly if unintentionally encapsulated by the Prime Minister himself when he exhorted us all to try to understand less . |
| 2 | She did n't mention anything to you when she phoned you last week that she got a letter from me ? |
| 3 | You free yourself of the hold others had over you when you allowed them this control over your life . |
| 4 | He seemed so fiercely shut up in himself that Ruth was afraid people would start seriously meaning it when they called him mad . |
| 5 | I knew it when she met you that first time you came to my place . ’ |
| 6 | Just for a moment Michele looked disconcerted , then said easily , ‘ Signor Candiano must have mentioned it when I saw him this afternoon . ’ |
| 7 | You wonder that it should seem to me at first all illusion But how natural — It is true of me … very true … that I have not a high appreciation of what passes in the world under the name of love ; & that a distrust of the thing had grown to be a habit of mind with me when I knew you first . |